striving

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstɹaɪvɪŋ/
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  • Rhymes: -aɪvɪŋ

Verb

striving

  1. present participle and gerund of strive

Noun

striving (countable and uncountable, plural strivings)

  1. Effort; the act of one who strives.
    • 1918, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine:
      Repudiating the excessive sexualism of Freud and insisting upon the importance of the food-seeking impulse, especially in childhood, he regards all the primary impulses as differentiations of one fundamental energy, the life force which sustains all our strivings, both conscious and unconscious […]
    • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page iii:
      Sexual virility, coital potency rides high and arrogant over the commercial, artistic, social strivings of contemporary society[.]
    • 2007, Steve Talbott, Devices of the Soul, page 192:
      Do we really want all those strivings and contrivings—all those thoughts and assumptions someone has cleverly etched into the hardware and software we are using—to remain invisible?
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